Ask HN: Does "vide coding" for Hardware exists?

#1

Post by byebyetech » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

I always wanted to make cool gadgets but learning electronics

and make my own PCBs always felt daunting. Are there any

vibe coding equivalent AI tool that automatically design PCBs

based on what you want? I think it would be be great to go

from "Anyone can code" to "Anyone can make anything.

Re: Ask HN: Does "vide coding" for Hardware exists?

#2

Post by toomuchtodo » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC

NYU is doing some work around using generative AI for Verilog and VHDL rapid development, check out their faculty papers published. Apologies if this is too far from your PCB use case.

Re: Ask HN: Does "vide coding" for Hardware exists?

#3

Post by rossdavidh » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 5:37 PM UTC

I dunno but "vide" -> "vibe" in your top line.

Re: Ask HN: Does "vide coding" for Hardware exists?

#4

Post by nikmart » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

https://atomic14.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-a-pcb-surprising...

This article discusses using Atopile https://atopile.io and Claude to "vibe-code" a PCB.

Re: Ask HN: Does "vide coding" for Hardware exists?

#5

Post by eimrine » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 5:48 PM UTC

I have some analog schematics which are hard to understood, how can I feed the image with a schematic to some AI?